D-Whit - It Was 45 Years Ago Today...Sunday July 27th 1969

July 27^th

 

The good news is the Cubs lost. Unfortunately so did the Mets. Chicago fell to visiting Los Angeles and Don Drysdale 6-2. New York couldn’t take advantage though-getting beat 6-3 in front of a packed house (55,391) of Shea faithful on the final Sunday of July.   

The Reds jumped on starter Don Cardwell with a three-run 1^st capped off by Tony Perez’s 2 run shot. A fielding miscue and Alex Johnson’s double added two more in the 4^th sending Cardwell to the showers.  The Mets trimmed the Red lead to 5-2 in the 6^th following Cleon Jones’ run-scoring single and a Tommie Agee sac-fly. Ron Swoboda then came to the plate with runners on the corners but went down on strikes. 

Reds starter, southpaw Gerry Arrigo scattered 7 hits over 7 and Wayne Granger went 1 2/3 for his 13^th save.